The Thermals have announced their new album’s details.
The band will be joined again by Death Cab’s Chris Walla on production duties and the album will be called Personal Life. The record was recorded onto tape and will be mastered from tape to vinyl, meaning the vinyl version will have no digital mastering. Look out for the first song I Don’t Believe You in August.
Against Me! are streaming their new album online.
White Crosses, which is due out tomorrow, can be heard on their MySpace page and is their second album on Sire Records.
Our favourite origami feline has dropped a track from his upcoming album.
Paper Tiger will be releasing his debut solo album Made Like Us on July 27th via Doomtree Records and to give you a taster of what’s to come, he’s put the track Palace, featuring crew mate Dessa on vocals, on Soundcloud.
Little bit of trivia on this one, the track is named after the football team he supports, one of the Crossfire family has definitely been at work recruiting people to his cause.
Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez Lopez and ex Red Hot Chili Pepper guitarist John Frusciante have released a free album in order to raise money for the Keep Music in Schools charity.
The album ‘Sepulcros De Miel’, which means ‘Graves of Honey’, will be available to download on the artist’s website. It also features Mars Volta members Juan Alderete and Marcel Lopez. The album follows the increasingly popular ‘pay what you feel’ theme with a suggested donation that will go to the charity.
Click here to listen or download the album, which will also be available on vinyl later this year.
On July 10th Irish all Ireland wrestling champ and skater Al Collins will be hitting the tarmac on his deck to skate from Ireland’s most southerly tip, Mizen Head, to Ireland’s most northerly tip, Malin Head, all hopefully within the tight time-frame of 10 days!
This may sound like hell to some but Al is doing this for a very worthy cause- much like Pritchard, Leo and Dykie on the Elodie run, Al will be skating through the pain barrier for Muscular Dystrophy Ireland.
Visit the Blog set up to cover the journey and we will bring you news as it comes in. Please dig deep to raise money for this worthy cause and enjoy this clip that should explain it all.
Al Collins All Ireland Skate Mission- extended version from Philip Evans on
Gallows are going to absolutely destroy the Fighting Cocks in Kingston on Saturday. You can’t really get more intimate for a band whose next high profile gig is as support to the mighty Rage Against The Machine at their Finsbury Park gig on Sunday 6th June.
Tickets for this one sold out within minutes, so expect it to get rowdy!
Dead Confederate’s ace new single ‘Start Me Laughing’ was released this week and the band have been deafening crowds up and down the country with their wall-of-sound live show. Check out a snippet of the live experience with a version of ‘Guns’ below. Stay tuned for news of new material over the coming months!
TRC have unveiled a new video! Check it out below and also check the band out live at one of these forthcoming summer shows;
June
25th – Bristol, The Croft BRISTOL (UK), Bristol
26th – Leeds, Ghostfest w/ Gallows, Seventh Cross. Knuckledust
27th – Hemel Hempstead, Rugby Club
July
7th – Norwich, The Marquee w/ 8 control
13th – Exeter, The Cavern w/ Sworn Enemy
18th – Preston, The Frog And Bucket
23rd – Croydon, Scream
August
4th – Newquay, On The Rocks
7th – Hevy Fest Main Stage, Kent,
7th – Watford, Railway Club
13th – Windsor, Firestation
14th – Manchester, Satans Hollow alldayer
15th – Leicester, The Boardroom Skatepark
One of our favourite pop-punk discoveries this year has been The Wonder Years and we couldn’t be more happy that they’ve signed with our friends over at Hopeless Records. Expect news on new releases etc over the coming weeks. The band are currently in the UK and are likely to return sooner rather than later too!
Their quick, ongoing tour of the UK calls at these three dates;
June
1 Slade Rooms w/ FOUR YEAR STRONG AND FIREWORKS, Wolverhampton,
2 Academy 2 w/ FOUR YEAR STRONG, Liverpool,
3 Islington Academy w/ FOUR YEAR STRONG AND FIREWORKS, London,
Manic Street Preachers have revealed today, that their new album ‘Postcard’s From A Young Man’ will be released in September, in order to coincide with their UK tour.
The band’s 10th studio album is said to promise “big radio hits” and a more pop orientated sound than their previous album ‘Journal For A Plague’.
Brighton based indie rock band British Sea Power will support the group on their UK tour, which stops in the following places;
Tour dates are as follows:
September
29 – GLASGOW, Academy
30 – ABERDEEN, Music Hall
October
2 – EDINBURGH, Corn Exchange
3 – CARLISLE, Sands Centre
5 – HULL, City Hall
6 – SHEFFEILD, Academy
8 – LIVERPOOL, University
9 – BLACKBURN, Kings Georges Hall
11 – LEEDS, Academy
12 – DERBY, Assembly Rooms
14 – MANCHESTER, Apollo
16 – LINCOLN, Engine Shed
17 – NORWICH, UEA
19 – SOUTHAMPTON, Guildhall
20 – SOUTHEND, Cliffs Pavillion
22 – BOURNEMOUTH, Academy
23 – NEWPORT, Centre
25 – BRISTOL, Colston Hall
26 – BIRMINGHAM, Academy
28 – LONDON, Brixton Academy
29 – LONDON, Brixton Academy
31- LEICESTER, De Montford Hall
November
1 – CAMBRIDGE, Corn Exchange